The Old Schoolhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. School, house.
The Old Schoolhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-pillar-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- School, house
- Address
- The Old Schoolhouse, Bucklebury
- OS grid reference
- SU 556 706
- Coordinates
- 51.43188, -1.20073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Schoolhouse is a 17th-century school building that has been converted into a house. It features 19th-century refacing and additions on the south and east sides. The structure is timber-framed with angle braces and brick nogging, and it has later brick facing at the rear. The roof is tiled with an off-centre ridge stack located to the left above the entrance. The building has three framed bays and stands two storeys tall. On the first floor, there are two 19th-century segmental-headed casements with two lights to the right, along with a three-light casement and a small casement to the left. The ground floor has two 20th-century three-light casements to the right and a boarded door to the left, situated beneath the stack. To the left, there is a block that is also timber-framed with brick facing, featuring a hipped tile roof and a stack at the rear. This block is one storey with an attic, and it includes a two-light segmental-headed casement to the right and a boarded door to the left.
Local climate
The Old Schoolhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
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